Sebastian Forster Coming to MPAC, 6/19

Mayo Performing Arts Center (MPAC) presents Morristown resident, Sebastian Forster as part of the Emerging Artist/New Works series. General admission tickets are $25. Student ticket prices are available for $20.

The official trio from the Astor Piazzolla Foundation, with Sara Sant'Ambrogio on cello, Galina Zhdanova on violin and Sebastian Forster on piano, performs works of Astor Piazzolla with additional piano solos by Sebastian Forster.

MPAC's Emerging Artists and New Works series is a new, quarterly series that showcases rising young artists and newer works by established performers in an intimate artist environment. Most events are held either on the MPAC stage - with the audience sitting on stage surrounding the performers -- or in MPAC's Starlight Room. The series gives patrons the opportunity to experience these works in a whole new way, as well as to have to opportunity to speak with the artists following each performance.

Born in Buenos Aires in 1975, Sebastián Forster has touched audiences and reached the souls of those lucky to hear him play live, lifting the musical experience to new levels of emotional engagement.

Sebastián made his international professional debut on April 28th, 1997, in Amsterdam, with the Concertgebouw Chamber Orchestra performing Mozart's piano Concerto #23, which was recorded live on BMG's prestige Victor Red Seal label.

Since then, his international career includes tours as a soloist and recordings performing with the Delaware Symphony Orchestra,
Stuttgart Philharmonic, Netherlands Symphony Orchestra, Berlin Symphonic Orchestra, Budapest Concert Orchestra (MAV), Linz Brucker Orchestra, Philharmonic Orchestra of Buenos Aires, Radio State Ukrainian Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra of Argentina, etc. and touring throughout the United States, Europe and South America.

Beethoven and Piazzolla live inside Sebastián with grand mastery and passion, as well as his extraordinary educational activity with the goal of bringing the musical universe of children out, teaching them, at an early age, the unlimited possibilities of self-expression through music. He is Faculty at the Piano School of New York City since 2005.

In 2009 Sebastián Forster ventured into accomplishing a lifetime-legacy major project of immense proportions: the recording of The 32 Complete Beethoven Piano sonatas, completed by 2012.

Sebastián is a true musician, he breathes and experiences every single emotion, of true love, drama, passion, desperation, beauty and darkness. Living music with every key stroke is an experience of monumental inner impact, only at reach for the daring soul and the truly talented soloist. This is a great opportunity to hear him, getting lost in the world of invigorating ideas and emotional virtuosity that has made Sebastián Forster one of the outstanding interpreters of the classical repertoire currently working on the world stage today.

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